Breakbulk & Projects

New Holland, the global agricultural and construction equipment maker, commissioned Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL) to paint five of its new compact tractors pink as part of the equipment maker's drive to raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Fo
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Crowley has safely and successfully transported one of seven new electrical transformers slated for the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA). The transformer arrived on the island Tuesday, following its journey from Mumbai, India to the US mainlan
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The 29th and final Hitachi train ordered for Southeastern High Speed Services was unloaded at the Port of Southampton recently. The train arrived in Southampton on board Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics' 67,140 GRT ro/ro ship, MV Tamesis and was transferred
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Atlantic Container Line announced that it is the only ocean carrier to offer a weekly ro/ro service from the United States and Canada to Casablanca. The Casablanca call is part of ACL's West Africa Service, which originated in 2001. This network offers 38
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In the United States the decline in industrial production is slowing, as is the fall in GDP. China’s GDP growth topped seven percent for the first half of 2009. Commodity prices are moving upward. Is this a false horizon or is a breakbulk breakout comi
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While Canadian ports remain an active player for breakbulk project cargo activity related to Alberta oil sands, wind energy and other dimensional shipments, the global recession has provoked a significant change in some market trends.

The dimensions of this buoy outrange many conventional vessels: a weight of 1,100 tons and a height of 27 meters making it the world's largest in its category. The loading of such a both large and highly sensitive object required absolute precision and de
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Tsakos Energy Navigation Limited (TEN) announced the delivery of the double-hull DNA designed 105,000dwt Aframax tanker Ise Princess from Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Japan. The vessel is the fifth delivery in an eight vessel series. The company expects t
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Three Crowley vessels and their crews were recently awarded 2008 Jones F. Devlin Awards at the Chamber of Shipping of America's (CSA) Annual Safety Awards Luncheon for operating more than two years without a lost time incident.
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The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and the Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), based in Geneva, are together running a regular weekly service (ISES) between northern Europe and the Indian subcontinent.
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The Port of Antwerp has taken an important step forward in the fight against port-related air pollution. Seagoing ships belonging to Independent Container Line (ICL) will henceforth be able to use a shore-based electricity supply when they are lying at be
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As part of their "175 Years of Rickmers in Shipping" anniversary, Hamburg shipowners and businessmen Bertram and Erck Rickmers have donated one million euros to the World Future Council (WFC). "On the occasion of the family's 175th anniversary we would li
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TITAN Salvage successfully cut the stern section and engine room from the No. 5 cargo hold of the sunken freighter New Flame, then lifted the 3,000-ton section from the seabed off Europa Point and transported it to the Port of Gibraltar, marking a major m
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Following the earlier announcement that Asia Project Chartering Pte Ltd (APC) will be dissolved from the beginning of July, Leer-based BBC Chartering is undertaking a number of developments to reinvigorate and enhance its presence in Asia Pacific markets.
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Their family has been involved in shipping for 175 years. They are the fifth generation and today run two independent groups of companies: Bertram and Erck Rickmers, entrepreneurs and ship owners from Hamburg, will be celebrating the 175th anniversary of
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